Cuil is the latest search engine to rival juggernaut Google. Pronounced “Cool,” Cuil claims to be able to find 3 times as many pages as Google can; as of today, 121617892992 webpages. This fact alone does not make Cuil a superior search engine. The vast majority of users are only looking at the first 10 results anyways, so anything beyond those lose their significance rapidly. Cuil’s management team claim the search engine ranks pages by their relevance as opposed to their subjective popularity. (more…)

“Darn!” you think to yourself. “If only I knew what the website address was!”

This happens millions of times per day, and it happens to millions of different people. You know that a website exists for a particular company or product, but you don’t know the URL. What’s a URL you ask? URL is an acronym that stands for Uniform Resource Locator (Impress your friends!). In non geek-speak, a URL is simply the address of a webpage on the World Wide Web. (more…)